Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-400) and index

Pt. 1: Trap of nature -- Slipping the trap of appetite -- "That's my way, Coyote, not your way" -- The first lie -- The land of the dead -- Pt. 2: Two-road chance -- An attack of accidents -- The god of the crossroads -- The lucky find -- Pt. 3: Dirt work -- Speechless shame and shameless speech -- Matter out of place -- Pt. 4: Trap of culture -- Hermes slips the trap -- Frederick Douglass and Eshu's hat -- Trickster arts and works of Artus -- Prophecy -- Envoi -- Appendix I. The Homeric hymn to Hermes -- Appendix II. Trickster and gender -- Appendix III. Monkey and the peaches of immortality

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